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joining me now are jeremy, former assistant district attorney in the manhattan das office, trial divisionaig, new york times investigative reporter focused on the finances and taxes of donald trump. what a beat! thank you both for being here today. i have got to ask. let me go to you first, jeremy. the idea trump was covering up story is, that he didn't want his family reading about it, that was somewhat established by hicks' testimony. but, she was also pretty clear that everything that was done in this period was through the lens of the campaign, that this was decidedly a move that would benefit trump's candidacy. doesn't matter if he also had personal reasons for doing it? >> the court can take judicial notice of the affairs, but they are not genuinely exclusive. you could also want to protect the campaign in addition to wanting to protect your family. that's not what this is about. >> as long as you are doing it for expressly political or campaign purposes it's still violation? >> it's not like you have a self defense claim here. you could have done it for this reason, but also that r
joining me now are jeremy, former assistant district attorney in the manhattan das office, trial divisionaig, new york times investigative reporter focused on the finances and taxes of donald trump. what a beat! thank you both for being here today. i have got to ask. let me go to you first, jeremy. the idea trump was covering up story is, that he didn't want his family reading about it, that was somewhat established by hicks' testimony. but, she was also pretty clear that everything that was...
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stuart: former prosecutor at the manhattan da, elliott felig joins me now. you think of a directed verdict? >> i think that ship has sailed unfortunately for the defense. the defense had bought a written pre-trial motion to dismiss the charges, basically on the same theory they are going to make the argument today at the close of the people's case as a basis for the motion to dismiss. judges almost never grant those and they prefer even when judges perceive a prosecution case is being extremely weak, they prefer the jury to be the one to make the decision. they prefer the jury give it as rejecting the case rather than the judge so i think it's very very unlikely he will grant a directed verdict. stuart: could it be dismissed or in some way it's over? forget it. >> the judge has the discretion to do that but i think it's extremely unlikely. stuart: okay should the defense lawyers bring any witnesses at all to the stand, like bob coste llo for example? >> so it's important to remember that prosecution always has the burden of proof. it never shifts. the defens
stuart: former prosecutor at the manhattan da, elliott felig joins me now. you think of a directed verdict? >> i think that ship has sailed unfortunately for the defense. the defense had bought a written pre-trial motion to dismiss the charges, basically on the same theory they are going to make the argument today at the close of the people's case as a basis for the motion to dismiss. judges almost never grant those and they prefer even when judges perceive a prosecution case is being...
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. >> neil: reason i mention it because alvin bragg manhattan da has commented on these arrests sayingat every case. want to call him here directly, on my office has in every instance in all of them i will look to have -- of each individual case on our docket and make decisions based on the facts and the lock and i will include a thorough review of body cambridge and interviews of witnesses in terms of scheduling. the earliest arraignments were probably be there this afternoon, this evening but in other words he will be closely school -- >> he's going to be and his due diligence in terms of discovering the body warn cameras, with the statements and he'll come out with an arraignment charge. hopefully that sticks to an indictment charge and based on a person history, we'll see what happens but we have to set the example your. >> neil: but he does have -- of letting assailants go for those who -- >> i'm just wondering if you're worried for your men and women about what this might signal? >> i'm sure the va will do his due diligence in his case in light of what's happening. this is ground
. >> neil: reason i mention it because alvin bragg manhattan da has commented on these arrests sayingat every case. want to call him here directly, on my office has in every instance in all of them i will look to have -- of each individual case on our docket and make decisions based on the facts and the lock and i will include a thorough review of body cambridge and interviews of witnesses in terms of scheduling. the earliest arraignments were probably be there this afternoon, this...
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. >> let me just say, the manhattan da's office would have never brought this case, and just for lyinge they had enough of what he was going to say corroborated and they had enough circumstantial evidence of guilt. that is why you heard the excerpts from donald trump's book, basically describing himself as a micromanager, knowing about the paperclips, reading the invoices from the decorators. that is why you had david pecker, the national enquirer person at the beginning, laying out the whole conspiracy , laying out that he is detail oriented and micromanaging. so, what you hear brought in by the prosecution, really that donald trump did not know about an advisor that reported directly to him, and michael cohen reported that directly to him, he did not know what they were doing and you have those 11 checks to donald trump signed. so, that is going to be the prosecution's argument. >> suzanne, one of the things that i thought was pretty interesting in this cross of michael cohen was all focus on revenge. the fact that you had the idea that cohen was singularly focused on this. this is t
. >> let me just say, the manhattan da's office would have never brought this case, and just for lyinge they had enough of what he was going to say corroborated and they had enough circumstantial evidence of guilt. that is why you heard the excerpts from donald trump's book, basically describing himself as a micromanager, knowing about the paperclips, reading the invoices from the decorators. that is why you had david pecker, the national enquirer person at the beginning, laying out the...
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da's prosecution. we're also joined by former federal prosecutor, at least adamson. i want to say thanks to both of you for being here. >> norm. let's start first with you. prosecutors have wanted have waited to call cohen until the end of the trial help us understand that strategy. and do you think it's a good one i do think it's a good strategy. >> jessica. and the reason is they want the jury to understand that everything michael cohen is saying on the stand is supported or corroborated by other evidence so for example, cohen will testify that donald trump was part of that payment to stormy daniels to benefit his campaign, setting up the underlying crime alleged good. of campaign finance and election law violations that you need to make this document falls of felony. well, we have the trial opened by david pecker, who does divide he was in a meeting with cohen donald trump at trump tower where they agreed to do these kinds of deals in order to benefit the campaign so as you go through step-by-step,
da's prosecution. we're also joined by former federal prosecutor, at least adamson. i want to say thanks to both of you for being here. >> norm. let's start first with you. prosecutors have wanted have waited to call cohen until the end of the trial help us understand that strategy. and do you think it's a good one i do think it's a good strategy. >> jessica. and the reason is they want the jury to understand that everything michael cohen is saying on the stand is supported or...
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. >> manhattan da alvin bragg, addressing reporters thursday at the conclusion of a historic trial ending with donald trump becoming the first former american president to be convicted of felony crimes. >> a new york jury finding him guilty of all 34 charges he faced in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to adult film actor stormy daniels. >> while this defendant may be unlike any other in american history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately today at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes through the courtroom doors, the former president sitting stone faced as the verdict was read aloud. >> it's the first of four criminal cases involving trump to reach a conclusion. he faces three other felony indictments in florida, georgia and washington, d.c. trump, addressing the media as court let out. >> i think it's just a disgrace. and we'll keep fighting. we'll fight till the end and we'll win . >> the jury hearing more than four weeks of testimony, including from the prosecutors key witness michael cohen, who helped orchest
. >> manhattan da alvin bragg, addressing reporters thursday at the conclusion of a historic trial ending with donald trump becoming the first former american president to be convicted of felony crimes. >> a new york jury finding him guilty of all 34 charges he faced in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to adult film actor stormy daniels. >> while this defendant may be unlike any other in american history, we arrived at this trial...
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da's office.usan glasser is a staff writer for the new yorker. so glad to have you with us, as well. she co-authored the book, the divider, trumping the white house from 2017 to 2021, and my friend anthony coley, former justice department spokesperson under attorney general merrick garland. hugo, take us into court. today was a really big day to get started. michael cohen's testimony, super anticipated. what was the atmosphere like? >> it was pretty tense to begin with and i think michael cohen himself had a bit of jitters that he combed down pretty quickly and as we got through the day i think his testimony got more and more striking and more and more important, especially towards the end of the day. he provided the link that we had not yet heard, which was to pull trump into the scheme and to say that basically trump new kind of all three elements of what the da's case is, that trump knew that reimbursement scheme was to pay back hush money, that trump new was kind of causing these false entries
da's office.usan glasser is a staff writer for the new yorker. so glad to have you with us, as well. she co-authored the book, the divider, trumping the white house from 2017 to 2021, and my friend anthony coley, former justice department spokesperson under attorney general merrick garland. hugo, take us into court. today was a really big day to get started. michael cohen's testimony, super anticipated. what was the atmosphere like? >> it was pretty tense to begin with and i think michael...
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da's office between such and such dates, cohen's manner is still very even were told would you just rest your case if you were the defense, the prosecution, let's assume they finish their case whenever this crossing examinations over. and there's a redirect, et cetera, et cetera, and the prosecution says, okay, the prosecution rests. would you if you were todd blanche say what we rest to like they didn't they didn't meet their burden. i think there's a good argument in favor of doing that. >> i mean, at this point, unless they really think that there's something that comes out from michael cohen's testimony i think at this point there would be a strong argument for the defense to just stand up and say, look, the prosecution hasn't met its burden. that's case. here's all the things that they have to prove. they haven't gotten there. and it's time for everybody to go home. i think i don't know that they'll do that, but i think there's an argument in favor. >> it's kind of a baller move when defense attorneys do that, but i wonder would this client accepts at that he likes people fight
da's office between such and such dates, cohen's manner is still very even were told would you just rest your case if you were the defense, the prosecution, let's assume they finish their case whenever this crossing examinations over. and there's a redirect, et cetera, et cetera, and the prosecution says, okay, the prosecution rests. would you if you were todd blanche say what we rest to like they didn't they didn't meet their burden. i think there's a good argument in favor of doing that....
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da alvin bragg also weighing in many voices out there the only voice that matters is the voice of theury. and the jury has spoken let's get straight to kristen holmes there at trump tower. so christian, what are we expecting to hear from the former president this morning well eric i was a senior advisers to expect a lot of the same messaging saying that this was election interference, that this case should have never been brought talking about how this is political persecution, really what we've heard from the president since before this trial even started. >> but i will note that while the senior advisers have briefed me on that, it is unclear that donald trump will stay on message. that's just moments ago, they had a teleprompter set-up that was taken down and as you know, when donald trump goes off-the-cuff, he tends to say almost anything. so we'll stay tuned to see what kind of messaging he has. i will say that after being shocked, stunned after that verdict came out, i am told by sources close to him that he started being in better spirits after week i'm told by donors, allies,
da alvin bragg also weighing in many voices out there the only voice that matters is the voice of theury. and the jury has spoken let's get straight to kristen holmes there at trump tower. so christian, what are we expecting to hear from the former president this morning well eric i was a senior advisers to expect a lot of the same messaging saying that this was election interference, that this case should have never been brought talking about how this is political persecution, really what...
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zombie case, the manhattan da's office, full of smart people, mission commissioned an outside law firm, to tell them whether or not this was even a viable theory of a crime. the only reason i bring that up is we have to recognize there is a possibility that jurors will struggle with this theory of liability because it's not easy. earlier catherine was talking about all the falsification of business records cases that the government -- or i should say the da's office brings, they bring a lot. those are under easier theories to understand. if i commit money laundering i'm probably also going to commit false entries in business records to cover that money laundering. this is a novel application of the law, and whenever anything's novel it may be difficult for the jury to understand. it may be that every member of the jury is completely on board with the idea that this tape, unequivocally shows, as the prosecution is saying, a presidential candidate engaging in a scheme to influence the election, some may go in there and say, or, it's a guy trying to cover up an embarrassing incident, or s
zombie case, the manhattan da's office, full of smart people, mission commissioned an outside law firm, to tell them whether or not this was even a viable theory of a crime. the only reason i bring that up is we have to recognize there is a possibility that jurors will struggle with this theory of liability because it's not easy. earlier catherine was talking about all the falsification of business records cases that the government -- or i should say the da's office brings, they bring a lot....
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da's office. while we watch for these defense motions to play out here's one of the things going on. roshan is saying of susan necklace y-intercept, you wouldn't have object to the mention of a condom? i don't understand this is because susan nechele less said that it was a dogwhistle to mention that donald trump had sex with a stormy daniels allegedly, although he disputes it without a condom, a dog whistle for rape some of the headlines coming in from the courtroom right now is the judge discusses this motion for mistrial. the judge said and going back to the very opening statements, mr. blanche the defense attorney, and your opening statement you denied there was ever a sexual encounter between stormy daniels and the defendant, and that is the point that he's raising their of paula reid and jeremy. is that you didn't by denying it, you put her credibility at issue and by doing that, you open the door for the prosecution to ask her to tell the story. is that right? and then when there were certa
da's office. while we watch for these defense motions to play out here's one of the things going on. roshan is saying of susan necklace y-intercept, you wouldn't have object to the mention of a condom? i don't understand this is because susan nechele less said that it was a dogwhistle to mention that donald trump had sex with a stormy daniels allegedly, although he disputes it without a condom, a dog whistle for rape some of the headlines coming in from the courtroom right now is the judge...
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da's office will have to weave together weeks of evidence and salacious testimony as they tried to prove that trump falsified business records in an attempt to silence porn star during the lead up to his 2016 election victory. but first, it's the defense. cnn has learned they are expected to focus on the credibility of michael cohen during closing arguments we have a great case. the case is no primes the exact timeline after today's closing arguments remains up in the air, but the jury could conceivably reach a verdict by the end of this week and with delays in trump's other criminal cases in dc and florida this could be the only trial to reach a verdict before the november election. the former president used the day before closing to send out this rant on truth, social, happy morrill day to all including the human scum that is working so hard to destroy our once-great country. trump then goes on to trash the new york judge that presided over a pair of civil defamation cases and involving the writer e. jean carroll joining me now to discuss nicholas johnson, the publisher of axios at nig
da's office will have to weave together weeks of evidence and salacious testimony as they tried to prove that trump falsified business records in an attempt to silence porn star during the lead up to his 2016 election victory. but first, it's the defense. cnn has learned they are expected to focus on the credibility of michael cohen during closing arguments we have a great case. the case is no primes the exact timeline after today's closing arguments remains up in the air, but the jury could...
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da's office to do their own analysis of electronic devices that are seized in investigations and they have some really incredible people as you can see from the cross-examination of this gentleman, he worked in iraq and he's done in tel work. i mean, just the most talented, incredibly couple people work there and lend their expertise to the office to help them solve crimes. it's credibly unit, not exactly. >> milton from office space, right? it's not exactly the pocket protector brigade. this guy served in iraq a bill i'll come right back to you, but i have to squeeze in a quick break because only select reporters have credentials to actually be inside that courtroom. we're going to talk to two of them about what we all could not see as witnesses took the stand, stay with us the whole myth has to be re-imagined. it was fee if you didn't know whether you were next they were both tied up. yeah. yeah. i was called it and they saw what turned out to be the biggest archivist in history it went from gold medal winning icon to a pariah it really happened with jesse l. >> martin, sunday's at
da's office to do their own analysis of electronic devices that are seized in investigations and they have some really incredible people as you can see from the cross-examination of this gentleman, he worked in iraq and he's done in tel work. i mean, just the most talented, incredibly couple people work there and lend their expertise to the office to help them solve crimes. it's credibly unit, not exactly. >> milton from office space, right? it's not exactly the pocket protector brigade....
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da decided to charge donald trump, nor did it began in 2016 when the alleged hush money deal was evented. it started in 2006 when she alleged she had an affair with trump at a golf tournament in lake tahoe. now, she says that she first did an interview about the encounter in 2011, but it was never published then in october of 2016, michael cohen struck a deal to buy her story in exchange for her silence, the price tag we all know white well by now, 103,000 bucks that deal didn't come to light until 2018, you know, when the wall street journal revealed it a few weeks later then trump attorney rudy giuliani confirmed it existed but another reporter almost broke this story first, joining me now is take a weisberg former reporter with slate magazine, who spoke to daniel's about the alleged encounter and saw the non-disclosure agreement, jacob. thank you so much for joining me, i'm really eager to hear your impression of all this essentially because your name was brought up in court today by the defense attorneys whose neck wasn't here is the quote do you recall that in 2016 that at the sa
da decided to charge donald trump, nor did it began in 2016 when the alleged hush money deal was evented. it started in 2006 when she alleged she had an affair with trump at a golf tournament in lake tahoe. now, she says that she first did an interview about the encounter in 2011, but it was never published then in october of 2016, michael cohen struck a deal to buy her story in exchange for her silence, the price tag we all know white well by now, 103,000 bucks that deal didn't come to light...
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part two, the onus falls on manhattan's da, like that gentleman said that was reported earlier, the criminals on the subway system they're assaulting individuals, they are arrested and then out on the street 24 hours later. the da needs to put a stop to this. new york city has become a laughing stock in regards to the criminal justice reform system. these unlawful protesters, it's not enough for them to be arrested, they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >> trace: yeah, you are exactly right. standby if you would. just to kind of wrapup with you, aaron cohen, when you look at what's happening here at city college and you see that they are up there and they are causing problems there and then you see that ucla is cracking down, you see that texas is arresting people and cracking down, florida is cracking down, do you think these protesters might have come to the end of their run? >> not until you completely shut them down. the reason why is because based on the threat escalation, if you look at the history of these types of incidents over the last 50 years, it does not ma
part two, the onus falls on manhattan's da, like that gentleman said that was reported earlier, the criminals on the subway system they're assaulting individuals, they are arrested and then out on the street 24 hours later. the da needs to put a stop to this. new york city has become a laughing stock in regards to the criminal justice reform system. these unlawful protesters, it's not enough for them to be arrested, they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >> trace:...
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cartwright alleges he later learned that a top lawyer for the enquirer spoke to the manhattan da's office in an attempt to disparage battilana gutierrez's credibility and telling them that ambra battilana was trying to sell her story was the complete opposite of what was actually going on. because we were inducing ambra battilana. she wasn't trying to sell her story. i felt sick to my my stomach. the decision not to prosecute came from previous da cy vance, no longer in office. >> he told cnn i have no information that i recall presently that the national enquirer or anyone representing it spoke with our office about selling a story to the enquirer weinstein told cnn through a spokesperson sinn the da's office knew all the facts and passed on this case had they felt they could pursue it, they would have neither pecker nor the enquirer's new parent company responded to requests for comment battilana gutierrez says she also turned down a hush money from weinstein's lawyers they went up to 300, 700 mammalian and i still turned down every time. >> and then gutierrez, as her brother back in it
cartwright alleges he later learned that a top lawyer for the enquirer spoke to the manhattan da's office in an attempt to disparage battilana gutierrez's credibility and telling them that ambra battilana was trying to sell her story was the complete opposite of what was actually going on. because we were inducing ambra battilana. she wasn't trying to sell her story. i felt sick to my my stomach. the decision not to prosecute came from previous da cy vance, no longer in office. >> he told...
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this was and i asked him about whether he had spoken to the manhattan da's office.his was in the context of a different case, but bottom line, same problem michael cohen's credibility. here's what he told me did. you ever talk to them about your credibility? did they ever talk to you about your credibility absolutely. >> i spoke with ten different law enforcement agencies. what i did i wrote probably remember this that the house oversight i brought in documentary evidence. i didn't want anyone to question my credibility. you know, this is something that irritates me, right? because donald trump is the one who labeled me a convicted liar. >> so in fairness, he was labeled a convicted liar elliott in the courts and went to prison but that's i mean, that's his his attempt to try to say i am i am credible. >> i what how do you expect that to play out today as we start to see him on the sandi, the prosecuting prosecution, could we acknowledge them around with a credit? the prosecution has to acknowledge that they have witnessed with baggage and prosecutors often do this.
this was and i asked him about whether he had spoken to the manhattan da's office.his was in the context of a different case, but bottom line, same problem michael cohen's credibility. here's what he told me did. you ever talk to them about your credibility? did they ever talk to you about your credibility absolutely. >> i spoke with ten different law enforcement agencies. what i did i wrote probably remember this that the house oversight i brought in documentary evidence. i didn't want...
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. >> reporter: in manhattan the da is investigating after the nypd says an officer accidentally fired their gun during the sweep of hamilton hall at columbia university. no one was injured. >> so you know, the mayor of new york city has talked about outside agitators co-opting these protests. he didn't initially provide proof, but police have released information about that. >> reporter: that's right. we have data, but we don't completely know the context of some information. here's what we do know -- according to nypd arrest data, nearly 40% of those taken into custody between columbia university and city college here in new york were not students or otherwise affiliated with the schools. that means they weren't faculty or staff. now at columbia the number is smaller, that's about 30% of the people were not affiliated with the university. but what we do not know at this point is how many of those off-campus folks were inside of hamilton hall or in the on-campus encampment. the conversation about the outside agitator, we know there have been a number of students who said these were st
. >> reporter: in manhattan the da is investigating after the nypd says an officer accidentally fired their gun during the sweep of hamilton hall at columbia university. no one was injured. >> so you know, the mayor of new york city has talked about outside agitators co-opting these protests. he didn't initially provide proof, but police have released information about that. >> reporter: that's right. we have data, but we don't completely know the context of some information....
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. >> so fast forward now to january of 2023, just as manhattan da alvin bragg was asking a grand jury to hand up an indictment, trump is out again calling daniels horse face and adding it all caps. never had an affair. >> and then three weeks before he was actually charged shot, posted on truth social i never had an affair, with drama. daniel's nor would i have wanted to have an affair with stormy daniels. >> but, you know, trumps constant denials have been met with heavy skepticism or as maybe centered admit it as far as i know, you don't pay someone a hood and $30,000 not to have sex with you our next guest is a friend and colleague, stormy daniels. a lot of evan says that she was almost in the room that light in fact, she actually came up and stormy daniels is testimony today. prosecutor susan hoffinger having juror asked daniels, did you end up calling your friend elena from the hotel room? stormy daniels replied, yes. often der did you put her on speaker? stormy daniels? yeah. and she said, what are you guys doing and he said he being trump were just hanging out hoffinger. asked
. >> so fast forward now to january of 2023, just as manhattan da alvin bragg was asking a grand jury to hand up an indictment, trump is out again calling daniels horse face and adding it all caps. never had an affair. >> and then three weeks before he was actually charged shot, posted on truth social i never had an affair, with drama. daniel's nor would i have wanted to have an affair with stormy daniels. >> but, you know, trumps constant denials have been met with heavy...
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the former teeth assistant district attorney at the manhattan da karen friedman, agnifilo, also, bill brennan, a former trump payroll corporation attorney. karen moments ago, mr. trump falsely claims he's not allowed to testify because he's under a gag order. that's not right? correct? >> testify is a term of art. it means take the stand in court, raise your right hand and swear to tell the truth and you testified in front of a court in front of the jury. the gag order has nothing to do with that. of course, he can testify as an absolute right to testify and he is not restricted in terms of what he can talk about as long as it's relevant, admissible evidence. so the gag order has nothing to do with his testimony at trial perhaps he's confused about that, but it only talks about statements outside of court and bill who do who do you think the prosecutors might call next? do you think keith davidson was a good setup for michael cohen are or might someone else come, come before? >> i think they'll probably sandwich a few more innocuous witnesses in between these two and have cohen he's r
the former teeth assistant district attorney at the manhattan da karen friedman, agnifilo, also, bill brennan, a former trump payroll corporation attorney. karen moments ago, mr. trump falsely claims he's not allowed to testify because he's under a gag order. that's not right? correct? >> testify is a term of art. it means take the stand in court, raise your right hand and swear to tell the truth and you testified in front of a court in front of the jury. the gag order has nothing to do...
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da alvin bragg speaking out and praising the jury after that the historic conviction as soon as we can appeal, we will and donald trump's lawyer vowing to fight the verdicts and the possibility of jail time. >> for the former president right fiber him. >> your in washington alive. look at new york city where donald trump is waking up. it convicted felon this morning. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt wonderful to have you with us for the first time in us history, a former president is a convicted felon. the jury in donald trump's new york hush money trial, finding him guilty on all 34 charges of falsifying business records. the verdict follows nearly 12 hours of deliberations over two days sentencing is scheduled for july 11. here was manhattan district attorney alvin bragg while this defendant maybe unlike any other in american history we arrived at this trial and ultimately today at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes through the courtroom doors by following the facts and the law, and doing so without fear or favor one of trump's attorneys, todd blanch
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. >> the office right now, the mass the manhattan da's office has 30,000 plus cases. they announced indictments just this this past month of landlords and they had a plea of employer for wage theft. so there's a lot of work that they're doing in the office apart from this one case, right? >> 30,000 cases. that's an important number. >> now, when it comes to were talking about christians reporting on what trump's team is thinking. >> trump himself because of the gag order does not preclude him from a personal attacks against bragg or more sean has done both in plenitude. and here's just some of the things over the past few weeks during the trial that he said about bragg alvin bragg does nothing. >> he goes you have to guys like trump did nothing wrong. fat alvin corrupt guy he's a corrupt and really a corrupt or dropped district attorney who's allowed prime in the city to go totally unchecked. >> that's just the tip of the iceberg in a sense, it after this trial ends, i mean, are you concerned about that? >> well, i mean, in terms of concerns about public safety, prose
. >> the office right now, the mass the manhattan da's office has 30,000 plus cases. they announced indictments just this this past month of landlords and they had a plea of employer for wage theft. so there's a lot of work that they're doing in the office apart from this one case, right? >> 30,000 cases. that's an important number. >> now, when it comes to were talking about christians reporting on what trump's team is thinking. >> trump himself because of the gag order...
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agnifilo, the former chief assistant district attorney in the manhattan da's office and there has been a really interesting line of questioning happening right now inside the courtroom where the prosecutors are asking keith davidson simple things like, do you consider this to be hush money? this, what do blue, this was a relationship and a fair between donald trump and stormy daniels because the statements they were putting out at the time from stormy daniels don't rules and from keith davidson, karen, we're basically saying that there was no relationship that she was not paid hush money and keith davidson is pushing back and he's refusing to call it hush money. what do you make that? >> this is the of slippery language that people really dislike? when whether it's a lawyer or politician, i don't know. this reminds me. i did not have sexual relations with that woman. comment. it's it's clear that this is not true that he was being too cute by half as they say and what's happening right now as josh steinglass has to just say, look, this is what it is this is the cd world that donald tru
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. >> so karen, you have worked in the da's office, manhattan da's office. you also have been on a jury i think it's stupid that they didn't just give the jury the instructions that he gave them. so now he has to come and explain them all or some or whatever is there a reason why that's this is the way they do it in new york. >> or judge merchan does it it's the way it's done in new york and there are thousands of jury trials in new york state every year, where this has done the same way. >> okay. but why jurors why? >> because i said so is not that's not good enough for my kids. when i say to them, like, is there a reason was this for the printing press was invented like what exactly would, would prohibit a judge from, well, this will make it easier for them. they can just read the instruction like every jurisdiction has ways that things are done. and this is how new york does it. i think at grid i agree that there should be cameras in the courtroom to new york needs to change in certain ways. i totally agree. i think these notes, i think what's what's posi
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that is fulton county or of course, is the manhattan da's office.nder, i mean, you have been in the campaign and you have a lot of political experience it's trump trying, to capitalize on what he perceives as the ignorance. and i'm going to say a negative way, but the ignorance of the average voter who doesn't know how the political sausage is made, that he wants them to believe this is how it all works. >> oh, absolutely. enlarge the irony is that he actually weaponized the justice department against me. i think it's sitting up here he actually took a file. >> when you don't file on time and he magnified it so that they tried to come after me after i wrote my book and he literally did it two weeks after the book came out. >> so he's accusing the other side of something that he's actually done over and over again throughout the four years that he was in office so he is trying to exploit the ignorance of people who just don't know how things function in washington. and he's playing victim and it's very hard to know how things function in normal times
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da's office, jeremy saland, trial attorney misty marris, and criminal defense attorney bernardo vega, ilona guys, thanks so much. there's a lot of politics, there's no question about that. we want to talk about the legal here, and i want to start with what todd blanche said about the appeals process. he said that he's going to try and file motions before a formal appeal. what does that mean? what does it look like? can it work? yeah. so defense attorneys commonly do this. this is routine, so the first step is for the defense attorney to go to the trial judge. so this is judge martian and say that this verdict was what's called against the weight of the evidence basically says the jury got it wrong, that there was not enough evidence for the jury to convict. they asked the judge to overturn the verdict. that's that's the first avenue. it's very unlikely for that to succeed. almost always that motion gets denied unless there's a very extreme situation then the next step, as you said, is to go to the appellate division. the appellate division looks at the case, looks at the record and w
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it's going to be a non-violent crime are first offender typically in the policies of the manhattan da's office that wouldn't be a sentence where they asked for jail time. that said the department of corrections, when pressed on this, what do you do if donald trump is remanded to a sentence of a year or less or more. they have said we will find appropriate housing for him we'll find out what that means. >> maybe or maybe whenever we'll get to that what restrictions might trump face as a convicted felon? does this changes day-to-day life? so it does. >> now in ways that doesn't matter he does not qualify for a license in new york state, they become a barber, a security guard a number of other jobs. but then in ways that might which convicted felon cannot possess a liquor license, he owns a number of hotels with licensed establishes establishments in them. as the owner does that count, they'll just have to sort through that. can't get a real estate license without a certificate of relief or a waiver from the state. that could affect him, but there are plenty of people in the trump organiza
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i was working at the manhattan da's office at the time and they pick me for a civil jury and everyone including myself thought i was going to be the leader of the jury room because i'm a lawyer and i'm a trial lawyer and we've got back there and it turned out just by evolution, i was not i was by far not the leader because i had a strong opinion there was another there was a group of us who felt a certain way, and therefore, i didn't have much to say because there's no question in my mind. there was a whole other group that had a different point of view. and there was a gentleman who so i'll never forget he was a bartender and he was the guy who was like, well, what about this and what about that? and he just evolved as the leader of the jury room and brought us all around myself included to a particular place. again, it was civil, so it wasn't it was not about a criminal conviction, it was about liability. the thing that fascinated me the most about it was all the things is trial lawyers you think matter didn't matter. it wasn't about the show, wasn't about the performance, it wasn't
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the manhattan da's office will present four for alleged violations by the former president trump hasady been held in contempt and ordered to pay $9,000 in fines for violating the gag order. meanwhile, the presumptive republican nominee used a day off from court yesterday to hold rallies in michigan and wisconsin critical states this fall. >> it was trump's first time back on the campaign trail since the hush money trial started last month. and as he often does, he railed against the proceedings and i got to do two of these things that day. you know why? because i'm in new york all the time with the biden trial from being forced to sit for days on end. and kangaroo courtroom with a corrupt and conflicted judge, enduring a biden signed show trial at the hands of a marxist district attorney source back who's taking orders from the biden administration. i have a judge who gagged me. i'm not allowed to talk about things and nobody seen anything quite like it all right. >> turning me now to discuss his matt brown, he's national race and politics reporter for the associated press. mac. good
the manhattan da's office will present four for alleged violations by the former president trump hasady been held in contempt and ordered to pay $9,000 in fines for violating the gag order. meanwhile, the presumptive republican nominee used a day off from court yesterday to hold rallies in michigan and wisconsin critical states this fall. >> it was trump's first time back on the campaign trail since the hush money trial started last month. and as he often does, he railed against the...
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da's office. >> so i think everybody is doing their various their various jobs right now and collecting themselves because this is such a big deal and i also think the da's office is going to start thinking about sense sentencing. >> let's talk. you should think about, let's, let's talk about that now with this side of the table, because i believe that the judge gets to decide the sentencing, not the jury. is that is that standard? is that how it always sometimes the the jury never designs instance like this? >> no, that's not going to happen. and remember, we know that in fact, remember what happened during the closing arguments and todd blanche made the reference to prison. the judge was quite clear, even giving a curative instruction the jury to say, your job is a factfinder. my job is to actually sentence and the sentence itself could be a maximum for all charges of 20 years, up to four for each count. but the maximum of 20 years, this is a first-time nonviolent criminal offender, though. and so the likelihood of him serving hard prison time is pretty slim, but it does not remove th
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when this all allegedly took place in 2016, prosecutors in the, in the unit and manhattan, the da's office previously wanted no part of it. the federal government wanted no part of it. and then, as all these indictments and charges came down in different cases against trump, this one came along as well. you can help, but believe it's all coordinated. it's all designed to ruin donald trump and make sure that he does it with the presidency. so what, what, and during the case this judge do and heard trump mention, they wouldn't give me a different venue. is percent of the vote in that district in manhattan in new york city is what trump got in the 2020 election 8 percent. obviously the jury pool was very limited and very up beside it against him. so a change in venue seems fair. know, during the trial, the judge and on the lawyer. but the judge ruled against the defense over and over and over and left. the prosecution basically do what they wanted, and then the key came on draw you instructions. the instructions to the jury were so generic. i did them so much latitude and leeway that that's w
when this all allegedly took place in 2016, prosecutors in the, in the unit and manhattan, the da's office previously wanted no part of it. the federal government wanted no part of it. and then, as all these indictments and charges came down in different cases against trump, this one came along as well. you can help, but believe it's all coordinated. it's all designed to ruin donald trump and make sure that he does it with the presidency. so what, what, and during the case this judge do and...
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da, you were three months into your sentence. >> you had three years and so he did make the argument that you are trying to maybe work your way out a little bit early, but you're right. i mean, ordinarily well, you have someone who's looking at a monster sentence and the cross-examination is your only way out is through this witness. they ended through pleasing these guys, the prosecutors that dynamic is only very subtly present with michael collin, but on the flip side, you have a guy who i would argue has a greater incentive, which is entire identity. he is consumed by hatred for the defendant. i'd never seen that type of personal hatred and personal lusting for the person to go to jail. like i've seen in this case. but the one thing i will say though comparing i think look at michael cohen as a person worth thinking about other cooperators and other witnesses. to this jury, they're thinking about our human story, and i do wonder, is there a space here where they're seeing the times where they you've been loyal to someone and they've been back stabbed and seeing michael cohen is so
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da's office, which was frankly unfortunate. and david are urban, you've been sticking around and listening to this conversation. i didn't want to ask you about what karen was mentioning a few moments ago why why haven't the trump family member has been in the courtroom with them? >> jim, i don't have an answer for you on that. right. i've i've not discussed it with them. obviously, there have been certain members of the team. they're on a day-to-day basis. my guess is that, you see an erik their once in awhile, but, you know, people, people have jobs that they're going about and and maybe, maybe the political strategy and the legal strategy is not to have the family there. i'm not privy to the inner machinations of this court case. there susie's there today. i know the former president has a rally later tonight and wild would new jersey. and so i suspect that's why she's there. they're going to be headed there later, so i think when it when it makes sense, they're there when it doesn't, they're not there listen, the entire fami
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this is big, but trump glanced at the manhattan da, alvin bragg as he walked in. he hasn't been in yet, has he wasn't there the other day when i was there are exactly right so this is fascinating. alvin bragg of it all. so the district attorney, who oversees this case, but he has taken a very low profile here when we had the civil case, just a few blocks away, the attorney general of the state of new york, letitia james, she talked to the microphones every single day, often responded to trump on social media. alvin bragg is deliberately taking an extremely different approach. he is not often in the court. you never hear from him, even in his few media appearances, he has not answered questions recently about this case. so the fact that he's in court today, that's really interesting especially because they just think are killed on cross. so this is fascinating they get killed so he's not far away. >> maybe he was in that room waiting and saying i'm going to oversee the clean harbors report that he had walked in once oh man, it's one of the things we're like you did
this is big, but trump glanced at the manhattan da, alvin bragg as he walked in. he hasn't been in yet, has he wasn't there the other day when i was there are exactly right so this is fascinating. alvin bragg of it all. so the district attorney, who oversees this case, but he has taken a very low profile here when we had the civil case, just a few blocks away, the attorney general of the state of new york, letitia james, she talked to the microphones every single day, often responded to trump...
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when i was coming up in the manhattan das office we strongly believed that drug traffickers did not kill their clients and it was based on some relationship. relationship is a strange thing to say but drug traffickers near their clients and the knew who to go to to purchase drugs. we now live in a largely digital world where more than 200 million americans are on social media. >> this has completely changed what we say. we are also in a world where they are actively trying to deceive people. they are selling it as fake bills that look identical to real oxycodone, surreal xanax, real adderall, hiding in other drugs. this whole model has changed. cartels want to sell more drugs. fentanyl is the most addictive substance we've ever seen. 50 times more powerful than heroin. so they are using it to get people to come back again and again and as long as people survive, they believe they will have more customers. if they die, to the cartels that are the cost of doing business and they're going to go back on social media and they will find someone else. because it is interesting that in a sense,
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das office we strongly believe that drug traffickers did not kill their clients and in part it was basedon some relationship even a relationship is a strange thing to say but drug traffickers knew their clients clients knew who to go to to purchase drugs. we now live in a largely digital world where more than 200 million americans anare on social media. the cartels can operate largely anonymously without ever knowing their clients and the clients don't know their traffickers. so this has completely changed what we see we are also in a world where the cartels are actively trying to deceive people they are not selling sentinel as fentanyl they are selling it as for those that look identical to real l oxycodone to real xanax, adderall are hiding it another drugs that they sell as though it were ken kane when it's actually cocaine laced with fentanyl. the whole model has changed. with think about this a lot as cartels want to sell more drugs, fentanyl is the most addictive substance we've ever seen 50 times more powerful than heroin so they are using it to get people to come back again and a
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you saw a well executed plan from the manhattan das office to allow the introduction of certain cell phone records, text messages, emails. bank statements. it was a corroborating evidence that allowed michael cohen to stand on his own on his own testimony and not have to worry that there was nothing underneath them in terms of a foundation to talk about what happened. 's credibility is going to be an issue. we did not hear -- we heard few objections today. >> that was interesting. >> no sidebars for incredibly -- defense. what was the import? it was a free-flowing, well paced, clean, sussing direct examination. michael cohen was afforded the opportunity to drive the narrative for the with the das office wanted him to do. the jury was taking notes intensely. there were at least three who were feverishly taking notes and looking. that's the last thing i would say. the visual aid of having the exhibit displayed on the screen in addition to when the audiotape was played of the famous, secretly recorded donald trump thing accompanied by the transcript, it's so effective. jurors sit and si
you saw a well executed plan from the manhattan das office to allow the introduction of certain cell phone records, text messages, emails. bank statements. it was a corroborating evidence that allowed michael cohen to stand on his own on his own testimony and not have to worry that there was nothing underneath them in terms of a foundation to talk about what happened. 's credibility is going to be an issue. we did not hear -- we heard few objections today. >> that was interesting....
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das office who have constructed a memory in michael cohen did not organically exist about a conversation. >> you know, i have expressed at times skepticism about this case even being brought. i will say though, yesterday, when commentators were talking about how this is some perry mason line, i said, no it is not. a juror is not going to go, oh my god, eight years ago, a minute and a half conversation- - it seems to me, the much bigger problem is the podcast where he says, i want this guy to go down. the prosecution has got to be able to clean this up on redirect? >> i agree, but i think you and i are in the minority. the vibe i have been getting is a lot of people think this is that perry mason moment. to that i say, when it comes to cooperating witness types like cohen, and cohen, if we take a step back, is not close to the worst cooperating witness you have on the stand. these are hardened criminals, normally. the prosecution knows he will get dinged on things especially because a lot of these allegations happened eight years ago. jurors will forgive memory lapses from that long ago.
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da's prosecution including president biden, which, of course, has nothing to do with it. us now legal affairs analyst anthony coaly. thank you for being with us this morning. first, let's just get your preview of tomorrow's closing arguments. walk us through what we should expect to hear from both sides. >> well, good morning, jonathan. i'll start by noting that this is significant that we're here. of donald trump has thrown up roadblocks to keep this case from starting. even as recently at last week when he went to the appellate court when he tried to get the judge thrown off the case. but in terms of what we're going to expect tomorrow even with the prosecution, i think they have put forth a strong narrative and i suspect they're going to try to reiterate that story in simple terms. jonathan, we know that this case started in the weeks after trump ran for president at trump tower with trump in the room with michael cohen and with david pecker, the head of the "national enquirer." that's where this scheme was first developed. it is in that meeting that we know that there
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host: manhattan da alvin bgg.ing your rction to donald trump being found guilty on all charges. the lines are y screen as we hear from robert from missouri. caller: good morning, it's a wonderful day. donald trump deserves everything he is getting. he is the devil of the country anwhy republicans back him i have no idea. i don't know one democrat that can be p ijail because they haven't ne nothing. that wasn't an insurrection it was a terrorist attack and they know what bin laden did after that. ho: we have julietn arizona, a republican. caller: thank you for taking my call. i would like to say how dumbed down to allow everything to happen, happen. d't know how a seven-year-old charges became fedel arges brought by a district attorney. host: what do you mean a federal case this is new york. caller: bragg and his statements study he had a federal charge. you don't have jurisdiction er the federal. everyone can bie what they want to believe. i just prafothis country. people jt want to hate and believe whatever they
host: manhattan da alvin bgg.ing your rction to donald trump being found guilty on all charges. the lines are y screen as we hear from robert from missouri. caller: good morning, it's a wonderful day. donald trump deserves everything he is getting. he is the devil of the country anwhy republicans back him i have no idea. i don't know one democrat that can be p ijail because they haven't ne nothing. that wasn't an insurrection it was a terrorist attack and they know what bin laden did after...
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da's office? i should note, she's a council to a firm that represents michael cohen, but she doesn't have contact with them and doesn't work on her case and can speak about it freely. we also have paulo read here. this we are ensuring an interesting moment in this testimony where right now the prosecutor is showing the connie, who was a top official, the trump organization for a long time, an invoice from michael cohen. >> these are obviously the payments for donald trump was paying michael cohen back for paying stormy daniels the $130,000. and they're getting to an interesting moment here and paula, where they're basically walking through how he had to send these checks. he said this is a whole new process to washington because they were coming out of trump's personal account, not as trust account, and he was saying they did figure out to get these checks to the president of the united states. so he could sign them and send them back to them. exactly. it's still far with the jury is seen as a mec
da's office? i should note, she's a council to a firm that represents michael cohen, but she doesn't have contact with them and doesn't work on her case and can speak about it freely. we also have paulo read here. this we are ensuring an interesting moment in this testimony where right now the prosecutor is showing the connie, who was a top official, the trump organization for a long time, an invoice from michael cohen. >> these are obviously the payments for donald trump was paying...
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you saw a well executed plan from the manhattan da to allow the introduction of certain cell phone records, text messages, emails, bank statements, it always the corroborating evidence that allowed michael cohen to stand on his own, on his own testimony and not have to worry that there was nothing underneath them in terms of a foundation to be able to talk about what happened because his credibility, as we know, will be an issue. but, we also didn't hear the week with very few objections today. >> that was interesting in the transcript. >> no sidebars for incredibly aggressive defense we have seen, no objections. what was the import of that? it was a free-flowing, well paced, clean, sustained, direct examination today. michael cohen was afforded the opportunity to drive the narrative forward the way that the da office wanted him to do and the jury was taking notes intensely. at least three of them were feverishly taking notes and looking. that is the last thing i would say. the visual aid of having that exhibit displayed on the screen in addition to when the audio tape was played of the pa
you saw a well executed plan from the manhattan da to allow the introduction of certain cell phone records, text messages, emails, bank statements, it always the corroborating evidence that allowed michael cohen to stand on his own, on his own testimony and not have to worry that there was nothing underneath them in terms of a foundation to be able to talk about what happened because his credibility, as we know, will be an issue. but, we also didn't hear the week with very few objections today....
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now, on the stand is a paralegal with the manhattan da's office? named georgia longstreet, not an aim. anyone should be expected to know. and it seems like what she is doing is authenticating, laying the foundation for certain social media posts that donald trump put up. she's she earlier we had a note she was explaining twitter to the during good luck with that. she also apparently has gone through thousands of donald trump's tweets and truth social. she won't be commenting on them. she'll just be saying yes, this is supposed to be put up until the point you were making before dana, the reason we're hearing from these witnesses is because donald trump's legal team, as is there, right. has refused to stipulate usually. not always, but at 90% of the time, the defense will say yes, we agree those tweets are in fact his tweets. you don't have to recall the paralegal donald trump is giving no quarter. therefore, all these witnesses are having to take the stand and at carolyn, you are expert on juries. here. how do you suppose? >> and i know that this i
now, on the stand is a paralegal with the manhattan da's office? named georgia longstreet, not an aim. anyone should be expected to know. and it seems like what she is doing is authenticating, laying the foundation for certain social media posts that donald trump put up. she's she earlier we had a note she was explaining twitter to the during good luck with that. she also apparently has gone through thousands of donald trump's tweets and truth social. she won't be commenting on them. she'll...
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former manhattan assistant da catherine christian. let's pick up where we left off last hour before i rushed from the courthouse. catherine, how important is this picture? >> the defense would argue we aren't saying keith schiller and donald trump weren't together. we're saying when they had a conversation they were talking about the 14-year-old crank caller. it's important for the jury, if any of them had a doubt whether or not mr. schiller or mr. trump were together, that they have confirmation of that if the judge allows the photo in. >> when you have a situation like this where so much of the key evidence is about numbers, documents, allen wiesel ber eeg picture on a piece of paper. >> it can help. anything to help michael cohen's credibility in terms of the prosecution is great. the most corroboration you can have for him will help this case, particularly if you have some jurors on the fence about, oh, i don't know if i really believe him. they can deliberate and say, but x, y and z were corroborating. >> i want to go back to the
former manhattan assistant da catherine christian. let's pick up where we left off last hour before i rushed from the courthouse. catherine, how important is this picture? >> the defense would argue we aren't saying keith schiller and donald trump weren't together. we're saying when they had a conversation they were talking about the 14-year-old crank caller. it's important for the jury, if any of them had a doubt whether or not mr. schiller or mr. trump were together, that they have...
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karen, you're the former chief assistant district attorney for the manhattan de da's office. what's the goal here the defense wants to ultimately paint stormy as having made up this entire story yeah. >> i think they want to make they want to make her out to be a liar& an extortionist and an opportunist and kind of just somebody who is just looking for an she's made a career out of paint, of making money off of this encounter with donald trump and so they want to just paint her as a really deplorable person who should not be believed. and that's why i think they're gonna go after her pretty hard and they're gonna look at her prior the documentary she made it statements in that as well as there was an anderson cooper interview as well as a 60 minute interview. and i think they're going to go back and look at all of the those & if there's any inconsistency whatsoever, they will definitely use that to cross-examine her tomorrow. >> and paulo, we're still waiting for michael cohen, trump's former lawyer to be called as a witness. i guess the his testimony could really make or bre
karen, you're the former chief assistant district attorney for the manhattan de da's office. what's the goal here the defense wants to ultimately paint stormy as having made up this entire story yeah. >> i think they want to make they want to make her out to be a liar& an extortionist and an opportunist and kind of just somebody who is just looking for an she's made a career out of paint, of making money off of this encounter with donald trump and so they want to just paint her as a...
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these a former executive assistant district attorney for the manhattan da's office. and thanks for joining us so how successful has the defense been in its cross-examination with knocking down not only what michael cohen said in direct, but also just completely undermining any semblance of the idea that this is anyway but with a moral compass good morning. >> i wrote down what someone just said. he's lying liar who lied about lion there was dana bash, footnote. >> dana bash flip note dana bash well said dana, i love it this is this is the defense's doing a great job of making cohen appear defensive and as much as contradicting the substance of testimony, there really undermining how he comes across to the jury. it sounds like from what is being reported and what and i think you focused on exactly the right place he's saying everyone in the world, everyone in this system was corrupt, except me, the judge, the prosecutors. it was all out to get me and that's not going to fly with the jury, making him him come across as defensive. this really undermines the eyeline befo
these a former executive assistant district attorney for the manhattan da's office. and thanks for joining us so how successful has the defense been in its cross-examination with knocking down not only what michael cohen said in direct, but also just completely undermining any semblance of the idea that this is anyway but with a moral compass good morning. >> i wrote down what someone just said. he's lying liar who lied about lion there was dana bash, footnote. >> dana bash flip...